Huh: Democrats still not calling it the “Bank of America” stadium

posted at 6:41 pm on August 9, 2012 by Erika Johnsen

Heh. Democrats are trying to fill the seats at their upcoming national convention (wouldn’t want to court another embarrassing little scenario like the one at Obama’s campaign kickoff), but their most recent invitation is conspicuously lacking at least one specific detail. I suppose if I just Google-Mapped “The Stadium, Charlotte, NC,” I’d find my way to my destination? (Hint: I just did, and I wouldn’t.) The full e-mail via BuzzFeed (emphasis mine):

On Thursday, September 6th, Americans will come together in Charlotte to join President Obama and Vice President Biden as they accept our party’s nomination.

I’ll be there, and you could be there, too.

You can sign up for the opportunity to receive a community credential to attend the final day of the 2012 Democratic National Convention on September 6th. Visit BarackObama.com/community-credentials to find out how you can get your seat in the stadium and hear the President and Vice President’s speeches.

You can be there to witness Barack Obama’s last convention speech as a candidate for president. Eight years ago he gave the keynote address that propelled him onto the national stage. Four years ago he gave a historic acceptance speech in front of thousands of Americans. Now, it’s your chance to make history at the convention in Charlotte. …

Yes, I’ll try to avoid my fits of rapture just long enough to point out that they first tried to get away with calling it the “Panthers’ stadium” before reverting to just “the stadium” — because goodness knows they would not want to acknowledge that corporations or banks do useful things for anybody. Corporations and banks exists solely to profit tax-evading fat cats who donate ungodly amounts of money to those dastardly Republicans. They certainly do not do things like build stadiums, provide jobs and loans, create wealth, and supply us with goods and services we voluntarily purchase like computers, cars, and medical devices. Banks are just a bummer.

They certainly do not do things like build stadiums, provide jobs and loans, create wealth, and supply us with goods and services we voluntarily purchase like computers, cars, and medical devices. Banks are just a bummer.

Are you fkin serious? Banks build stadiums and produce cars and computers? They may help “finance” these things but giving credit to them for actually building them is ridiculous. You sound just like a democrat when they proclaim that a poor laborer is entitled to all your stuff because after all, they had a part in making it.

As for creating wealth, most of banks’ actual liabilities are so deep in the red that it would be hilarious if it didn’t threaten total economic meltdown. And the whole banking sector benefits democrats and the wrong kind of Republicans (cronyists). People like you blindly praise banks because you mistakenly think they represent good honest meritocratic capitalism. They really really don’t. See: TARP, quantitative easing, and every other crap policy the government pushes at the behest of the banks.

And just to reiterate, banks preferred Obama by a sizable amount in 2008. So you are praising Obama’s deepest-pocketed donors. What’s next, claiming Obama is ignoring the great contributions of the “hero” George Soros?

The new Fox News poll has Obama up 9 over poor hapless Mitt (49-40) and shows Obama winning Indpendents by 11 pts (same as CNN).

I TOLD YOU SO!

Clinton/Dole part 2!

gumbyandpokey on August 9, 2012 at 7:01 PM

Today’s Fox Poll is Barry 49, and Romney 40.

The pollster blared headline that Barry’s lead increased and Romney slipped compared to the poll in July. Barry lead increased by 4, and Romney slipped by 1.

The party breakdown is D 44 R 35 I 14 Refused to Identify 6.
for a +9 for Dem for a+9 for Barry at first glance.

But the breakdown from the last poll was
D 42 R 38 I 18 and Refused 3

There were more Dem (+2) surveyed and fewer Republicans (-3) sampled compared to poll July. When one takes into account the sample change and MOE, there may actually be no change whatsoever, in the margin difference between the last poll and this new one.

The number of people who refused to answer party ID has also increased by 3%, who knows how many of those were actually Dems.

And these people who interpret polls are supposed to be trained professional statisticians? But this is not to say that Romeny does not have to pick up his game

The new Fox News poll has Obama up 9 over poor hapless Mitt (49-40) and shows Obama winning Indpendents by 11 pts (same as CNN).

I TOLD YOU SO!

Clinton/Dole part 2!

gumbyandpokey on August 9, 2012 at 7:01 PM

You gotta wonder who they’re sampling–Nancy Pelosi and the Ghosts of Feminists Past?

I’m sure Ed will be along tomorrow morning with a nice dissection of these polls’ internals, showing that knee-jerk Democrats were answering the phone to support Obama, Independents were watching the Olympics, and Republicans were on vacation. And McCain got 27% of the vote in 2008.

Funny that two major polls today show Romney getting destroyed, and this site is filled with anything but who’s winning and who’s losing.

gumbyandpokey on August 9, 2012 at 7:04 PM

Ed will eventually analyze the pols.
There is no party breakdown in the CNN poll , as usual. But there may be a little unintended glimpse. On page 9, it mentioned there was 419 Republicans and Independent leaning Republicans. So out of 1010 people sampled, Republicans and leaners amounted to about 41.5%. Leaving others at 58.5%. There is no data on undecided, but those usually amount to less than 5% in most polls. So Dems and leaning Dems may be around 53.5%. So there may be a possible +12 Dems overweight for a +7 edge for Barry.

If you think that Obama is up only 9 on the murderer Mitt Romney he’s not really doing that bad. Well, it’s only August and the Obama campaign still has another 3 months to turn poor old hapless, ineffective, ignore the attacks Mitt into:

a child molester

a serial rapist in College

a doper

a liar

a felon

an evil land baron

a capitalist 1%er

Keep it up Mitt………..DON’T ANSWER ANY ATTACKS, just get ready for lots of praise from Christ Matthews on MSNBC this fall for the “elegant” campaign that you ran.

*****and not only did we not build it (businesses) but NOW OBAMA wants to take over it (per his Pueblo speech today).

Rush keeps saying don’t look at the polls or the media. Especially right now. Nobody is watching except for folks like us. Everyone else is focused on getting the kids back to school, watching the Olympics, enjoying the last weeks of summer.

Let’s give ole Oliobama a break. Let him bask in his fake polls. The floor will fall out from beneath him pretty soon. Poor guy.

You might get a 2 pt swing with likely voters, but Romney is behind by so much now that it doesn’t make a difference.

gumbyandpokey on August 9, 2012 at 7:15 PM

Hey “toldyaso”/gumbyandpokey how many other web sites do you grace with your media matters talking points? Just a suggestion, but if you want to look like a different poster on web sites try to change up your remarks just a bit. Don’t just cut and paste…

Seems like every ABR, whether it be Mobys or the Truest Conservatives Who Ever Lived And Believe That Pragmatism Is For Suckas, REALLY just wants to say this on the day after election day. That’s it, just say, told’ya so, like a child.

I have a dream where the Tea Party and regular Americans will TP the White House on Nov 7th and the outgoing members of Congress, the DOJ, and the WH have to clean it up and walk away in shame. Without their $175k lifetime pensions.

The pollster blared headline that Barry’s lead increased and Romney slipped compared to the poll in July. Barry lead increased by 4, and Romney slipped by 1.

The party breakdown is D 44 R 35 I 14 Refused to Identify 6.
for a +9 for Dem for a+9 for Barry at first glance

No way in #3!! or Earth will the electorate be 44% Democrat–it wasn’t even that high in 2008, when HopenChange was all the rage. Democrats will most likely be about 35% of the electorate, max, Republicans at least 33%, and Indies will be around 30%, more than double Fox’s sample of 14%.

Remember also that turnout figures on past elections are not based on voter registration (people who show up at the polls don’t show their party ID), but on exit polls. Exit polls are notorious for over-predicting votes for Democrats–maybe Democrats or liberals are more likely to talk to exit pollsters than Republicans–if we believed exit polls, President Kerry would have run for re-election in 2008. Exit polls showed the Wisconsin recall election to be a tie, while Scott Walker won the real election by 7%.

Early August polls are meaningless, when most people are on vacation (especially married people with children who vote more Republican than single people) and not answering the phone, but some of them might be meeting candidates and forming an impression. Wait until September, when the kids are back in school, and parents are back home, and then the polls might mean something.

The problem is the sloppy analysis of the polls. FoxNew’s headline is : Obama increased lead, Romney slipped and has a lot of catching up to do.
To say slip? By 1 point when MOE is +/- 3? And there is a -3 decrease in number of Republicans sampled when compared to July?

Key West Reader on August 9, 2012 at 7:18 PM
Thanks for the compliment. I am not remotely a statistician. I just looked at the poll instead of accepting the interpreted headline.

this is so great! these stadium naming deals include contractual langauge that requires any use of the stadium that it be called by its name. the dems keep this up and BoA will surely take some action. they didnt pay tens of millions of dollars to have a high profile event not mention them.

Since it is an open air stadium, I personally would like to know contingency plans are in place in the case of inclimate weather. What if one of those big ole 3 day tropical storm Carolina gully washers, caused no doubt by global “climate change”, pops up just in time for widdle Bammy’s recital…err, I mean speech? Will they all just pack it up and head over to the Super 8 for a kegger in Villaraigosa’s sweet jacuzzi suite? After all, he is issuing personal invites to the party. Inquiring minds want to know.